David Brooks
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 13, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
- Top 10K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
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What Is the Good Life? (opens the original)
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube David Brooks: Hi, I’m David Brooks. If you are listening to or watching this, you’ve stumbled across the first episode of a new podcast called The Permanent Questions. The idea of the podcast is that there are a lot of shows about politics and business and health and tech, but there aren’t enough about the really big questions of life. How do you find your purpose? How do you confront death? How do you save a relationship that’s going through a
AI Is Already Changing What It Means to Be Human (opens the original)
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Updated at 10:42 a.m. ET on September 8, 2026 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Many people think that AI is going to gain consciousness and take over the world, but I’ve never been among them. That’s mostly because I believe the human mind contains depths and complexities that AI and its engineers do not fathom and will never match. As the neuroscientist Anil Seth wrote earlier this year, “The more you delve into the intricacies of the bio
Democrats Became Great by Fighting the Left (opens the original)
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Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. The Democratic Party is moving left. Its most dynamic leaders over the past few years have been Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani. Its most passionate activists are the young progressives who gave us the campus encampments after October 7. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say the Biden administration was a dozen aging moderates trying to manage a staff of 4,000 young pr
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